Hi all,

I'm giving some love to an old Qualcast push mower. Made in Melbourne in the '30's or so to a brit design. A nice old thing:

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The rotating cutters run on some open cage bearings that I believe were probably sealed with some kind of packing material around the shaft. The remnants of it are this I think:

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The gap the packing has to fill is actually quite large:

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Any clues as whether this was indeed packed, and if so, what one might use to repack/reseal it? Rope/string with waterproof grease?

An alternative is to hunt some sealed bearings for it and modify stuff to suite - but, going for the original method first.

Many thanks,

Greg.
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